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Jackie enjoyed great success at UCLA, in fact he was at least one of the best players on each team. He was the first person ever to letter in four sports at UCLA. Jackie left UCLA in 1941 and began playing profession football for the Los Angeles Bulldogs...
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His football career was ended by the beginning of World War II. In 1942, Jackie left for the army. He served for thirty one months, during which time he was sent to officer's training camp in Fort Riley, Kansas. Jackie was released as a first lieutenant...
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Jackie Robinson Biography May 16, 2007 The Black Messiah of Baseball Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children...	3 / 670
jackie robinson Died: Oct. 24, 1972 in Stamford, CT Years with Dodgers: 1947-56 Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1962 The social impact of Jackie Robinson's inclusion into Major League Baseball in 1947 resonates as one of the civil rights movement's most significant triumphs...	3 / 614
Jackie Robinson Jackie worked for the National Youth Administration at a work camp but the camp was closed. In the fall of 1941, he joined the Honolulu Bears professional football team and then was drafted into the Army...	2 / 451
Jackie Robinson Jackie fought racism in his California childhood, at collage and throughout his whole life. During his childhood at California he was always picked on at school...	4 / 919
Jackie Robinson At this time Jackie was very into sports so this move made him pretty upset. He played baseball, basketball, football, and ran track while attending the University of California, Los Angeles...	5 / 1378
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was born to a sharecropper's cabin on January 31, 1919. He was the fifth and last surviving child. The Robinson's worked for the Sasser family in exchange for their cabin and a few provisions...	3 / 725
Jackie Robinson: First African American Baseball Player Robinson and the civil rights movement. He was a huge influence on black baseball players. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball...	3 / 610